Testing out users and user creation with ansible. Goal: Determine if running the user module regenerates ssh keys across multiple ansible runs. Context: Behavior seen by cheboygan in Ansible 1.2 series, reported in #ansible on October 2, 2013. Setup: - Ansible devel (as of bff47df) - Python 2.7.5 - Three Amazon EC2 instances, same AMI (spun up o…

add-users.yml

- name: deploy test files
  hosts: tag_Name_usertest
  user: '{{ user }}'
  sudo: true
  gather_facts: True
  vars:
    new_user: nathan
  tasks:
    - name: generate ssh keys
      user: >
        name={{ new_user }}
        generate_ssh_key=yes
        ssh_key_type=rsa
        ssh_key_bits=2048
        ssh_key_comment="{{ new_user }}@{{ ansible_hostname }}[ansible-generated]"
      tags: [ cluster-ssh ]

play recap

[~/Desktop/ansible-bug] ansible-playbook -i $ANSIBLE_HOME/plugins/inventory/ec2.py add-users.yml

PLAY [deploy test files] ****************************************************** 

GATHERING FACTS *************************************************************** 
ok: [redacted1.example.com]
ok: [redacted2.example.com]
ok: [redacted3.example.com]

TASK: [generate ssh keys] ***************************************************** 
ok: [redacted2.example.com]
ok: [redacted1.example.com]
ok: [redacted3.example.com]

PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************** 
redacted3.example.com : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0   
redacted1.example.com : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0   
redacted2.example.com : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0